The Way It Was for October 3, 2024
House fires, bombing zones in Block Island Sound, and virus-killed birds. Here is a trip into the pungent past.
Ward Freese
Ward Freese, a former pilot, aluminum siding installer, and East Hampton Town assessor, died on Aug. 25 at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Fla. He was 94.
Patti Morton
Patti Morton, a 1956 graduate of East Hampton High School, died on Sept. 21 at the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, Vt. She was 85.
For Ronald Edwards
A graveside service for Ronald Edwards of East Hampton will take place on Oct. 12 at 11 a.m. at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett.
They Met and Married on the Beach
Emilie Erica Stoll and Jean Carlo Barrientos, who were married on Friday at Navy Beach in Montauk, still remember the exact date they met: July 23, 2014. They had both finished their freshman years at college. They were at the beach. “He was surfing the hurricane swell at Napeague that evening while she was going for a sunset dip,” they wrote. “He came up to her as she was walking back towards the parking lot and asked her name, and the rest is history.”
Winslow and Walker Are Wed
Leland E. Winslow and Chelsea C. Walker were married on Sept. 22, the anniversary of their first date, at East Wind in Wading River.
Another Way to Tackle House Size
Given a chance to make comments on recent legislative suggestions about the zoning code in East Hampton Town, the planning board, at its Sept. 25 meeting, chose to focus instead on a suggestion that wasn’t made: changing the least flashy but perhaps most consequential zoning tool at the town’s disposal, the table of dimensional regulations.
Letters to the Editor for October 3, 2024
Lamenting changes to Sag Harbor, lamenting the housing problem, lamenting the mess that is our politics. Our readers unload.
The Main Street Metric
Judging by the relative calm on Main Street at midweek since Labor Day, East Hampton’s population has returned to the seasonal, weekend-versus-midweek, boom-and-bust pattern of pre-Covid-19 days.
Beyond a Hurricane’s Numbers
Hurricane Helene’s path from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia is a stunning reminder of how little separates much of the United States from massive weather disasters.